Ian Fleming

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• Men want a woman whom they can turn on and off like a light switch.

  • Men
  • Sex
  • Women

• My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.

  • Age
  • Marriage

• Never say ‘no’ to adventures. Always say ‘yes’, otherwise you’ll lead a very dull life.

  Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang (1964), Ch. 2

  • Advice

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

  • Success

• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

  • Philosophy